Comments on: fashion weak

By: Reiko at God's Favorite Shoes

Reiko at God's Favorite Shoes — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:29:42 +0000

I know I’m late but I agree with you! Most of the catwalk fashions are so irrelevant to my life!

By: Links to provocative articles regarding fashion, blogs & mags — An Affair With Fashion

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:02:09 +0000

[...] Week: Fashion Weak by Tricia Royal from Bits and Bobbins blog. Non Fashion by E from Academichic blog. London Fashion [...]

By: & they’re all made out of ticky tacky

& they’re all made out of ticky tacky — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:06:30 +0000

[...] Fashion Week tweets and blog posts were flying thick and fast, so it was in the air. When I read Tricia’s post about Fashion Week, I commented the [...]

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:20:31 +0000

I do really love the production and the thrill of a fashion show, which is an entirely different event when in person. That said, I have seen 6 NYFW shows in person over the past 3 years.

What I DISlike is the high snobbery that goes along with many (not all!) of the attendees as well as the junior PR girls who work this lists and lines.

Yes, fashion week has little to do with my real life, much in the way Broadway shows have little to do with real life. But it is fun entertainment.

By: laura

laura — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:51:39 +0000

no, you’re not the only one who feels this way! i’m not interested in fashion week anymore, too. i look at some collections on style.com, but i don’t like all the “theatre” around it – like lady gaga coming to a show completely overstyled and being shocked that it started without her (i think it was last year – read it in a magazine…). who do they think they are? what happens at fashion week doesn’t have ANYTHING to do with my life, with what i wear, what i like etc. most of the time, the fashion isn’t suitable for every day anyway. looking at fashion shows is more like going to the circus or theatre plays – looking at them is nice, but you don’t even think about wearing those clothes in real life.

By: WendyB

WendyB — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:57:42 +0000

As far as opening up the shows…I feel like the shows are for selling. People forget that there is business behind all of the excitement. With my jewelry, I like to show it to store buyers and editors who need to see it for work, and to private clients who are looking to buy or might be convinced to buy at some point in the future. But it doesn’t do me any good to show stuff to people who are just out for a good time and looking for entertainment. I consider a sample sale where people are standing around kibbitzing and having a good time but not buying to be a failure.

By: The Waves

The Waves — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:47:32 +0000

I can’t seem to get inspired by the fashion weeks either. I used to be all over the Fashion Spot and style.com, and I don’t quite know what has happened to me. I find high fashion increasingly boring these days. The fashion elite all look the same. The trends don’t seem to have any staying power. There is a handful of designers whose work I am interested in, but generally speaking, there is nothing interesting out there! I have a feeling this might have something to do with the intensified cycle of fashion seasons, as well as alternative sources of inspiration. I find my fellow bloggers and their unique styles way more interesting than catwalk images.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:04:04 +0000

I am with you. I am bored up to my eyeballs with it all. I feel like my google reader is full of runway pics and I just fly past them all. I *like* fashion but this is just too much (of course, I’m not one for runway pics any other time either, so maybe that’s my problem!)

(found you via Already Pretty!)

By: 18 February 2010 – NonFashion : academichic

18 February 2010 – NonFashion : academichic — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:31:54 +0000

[...] Tricia, over at Bits and Bobbins has a recent thoughtful post regarding Fashion Week as an instituti…. And as I said in her comments, I tried really hard to be interested in NYFW this year. I really did. But somewhere in between information overload and washing another set of cloth diapers for baby e. my interest sort of petered away. It’s not that I necessarily think that Fashion Week epitomizes the effects of late capitalism ala Frederick Jameson — though the politics of commerce and consumption are certainly wrapped up in it — nor do I think that I my own creativity somehow surpasses the thoughtful craftsmanship of those for whom clothing-making is a career. In fact, I very much appreciate those who synthesize the week for me and draw out interesting trends and highlights. But I do find that I treat even those images the same way that I do wardrobe_remix photographs: inspiration but not dictation, jumping off points not a finished product to emulate. [...]

By: poutfits

poutfits — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:29:18 +0000

How interesting! I have to say that I *am* into FW…pretty much only because I am fascinated by trends, watching things unfold, repeat, change slightly. But frankly, I wait until NY, London, and Paris are all done before I look at anything, and even then I wait until I am in the right mood to glance at a fraction of all of it. So I guess what I get out of it is inspiration. Definitely not my only source, but it interests me!